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Molly Bolin Is One of the Original Pioneers of Professional Women‘S Basketball . “Machine Gun“ Molly Bolin is one of the original pioneers of professional women‘s basketball. Bolin first made a name as a high school legend in her girls basketball-crazed home state of Iowa, where she excelled at the local variant of the sport known as “six-on-six”. In June 1978, Bolin became the first player to sign with the fledgling Women’s Basketball League (WBL), inking a $6,000 contract to stay at home and play for the Iowa Cornets. The WBL was the first effort to establish a nationwide professional basketball league for women and over the next three years Bolin emerged as one of its greatest stars. By becoming one of her sport’s first professionals, Bolin gave up the chance to compete for the highest profile opportunity for women’s players of her era - a spot of the United States Olympic team. As a single mother, Bolin chose not to play overseas, which offered the most lucrative contracts for women in the 1980’s. Instead, between 1978 and 1984, Bolin played in three chaotic domestic pro leagues, which attracted the best players of the era, but also suffered from chronic financial problems and instability. Despite the hardship, Bolin points out the great moments, like playing before 67,500 fans in the Hoosier Dome, shooting a Spalding commercial with Larry Bird, and leading her Iowa Cornets club to two WBL championship series. Molly Bolin - known today as Molly Kazmer - spoke to Fun While It Lasted about the early days of women’s professional basketball on June 5 th , 2011. Interview begins after the jump. FWiL: No one loves girls basketball more than Iowans. Until the 1990's, girls high school teams in Iowa played a regional variation called "six-on-six" and that's what you grew up playing. Did the Iowa Cornets ever get negative reactions from local six-on-six fans who simply did not want to see women play by "men's rules"? Kazmer: Good question. We didn't really get "negative" reactions, but we did have to win them over. It helped that about half of the Cornets were from Iowa and our fans knew who we were. I’m sure the game was slower than they were used to but we still scored a lot of points. I think we averaged closed to 100 per game and having a few home games televised and being in the papers made people curious to see us play. FWiL: The Cornets played home games all over the state, from big arenas to high school gymnasiums. There were several native Iowans on the team. Can you talk about riding the “Corn Dog” team bus all over the state and the reaction that you and your teammates would receive in these communities when you arrived to play teams from New York, Houston and San Francisco? FWiL: Well, as we became known thanks to a lot of press, people would honk and wave when they would see our bus. Once we played an exhibition game in Ottumwa, near my hometown of Moravia and a car load of guys pulled along side honking and yelling "Put Molly in the window!" It was really funny and of course I struggled against a few teammates who were trying to get me to oblige them! Once we got pulled over by highway patrol and I gave the trooper a Molly Bolin poster and we only got a warning ticket. Plus we did a lot of promotions at malls, stores, etc. to meet people and let them know who we were. In a lot of ways it was so much more comfortable riding that bus rather than flying. We could relax, eat, stretch out, sleep, play games, music or whatever and it was a great time for team bonding. Many of the teams we played were around the Midwest and not bad driving distance like Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Dayton. FWiL: Hardcore women's basketball fans can name perhaps 3-4 of the trailblazers who starred in the WBL. Players like you, Nancy Lieberman and Carol Blazejowski, or Ann Meyers, who had a tryout out for the Indiana Pacers and later married Don Drysdale. But who were some of your toughest opponents (or teammates) of that era whose names ought to be remembered alongside Lieberman, Meyers and Bolin? Kazmer: Well right off, it would be Doris Draving, my teammate who was an incredible rebounder and led the league with like 14 rebounds a game and was a top five in other league categories. She would have been a big star on any other team and I have always appreciated her unselfishness in just wanting to win games. She played many games with two sprained ankles taped really tight. You have to have a great center to win and she was a big reason why we played in two championship series. (And she had a great sense of humor and was so much fun to be around). My second year in the league, Liz Silcott, who played for the St. Louis Streak was from Canada and an unstoppable offensive threat. We were both averaging over 30 points per game, but she had a lot of personal problems which robbed her of her potential to be a big star in the league. The third season, Rosie Walker was a dominating force in the league but is not remembered as much as Nancy, Carol & Annie who had more high profile careers. Then there are many other players who would have emerged as stars had they been given a little more time in their WBL careers. FWiL: What are your memories of working for Iowa Cornets owner George Nissen? Kazmer: We all loved him, he was such a class act and it was a tragedy that we lost him as an owner. He had the team to his house for parties a couple of times and gave us all $100 cash in a card at his Christmas party which was really big bucks in 1978! He always wanted to do things the right way and we felt he cared about us. I didn't have a personal relationship with him as the only time I saw him was at team functions. FWiL: After the Cornets lost the 1980 WBL championship to the New York Stars, there was a long offseason of uncertainty as George Nissen tried to sell the team to Dick Vance, a former disc jockey who had some outlandish promotional ideas for the team. As the team's star player, were you kept in the loop about what was happening with the Cornets during this time? How did you get the news that the Cornets were not going to play anymore? Kazmer: That was a difficult time as we were all put in limbo. We had our doubts about Vance at the press conference that introduced him and after that we finished the season with sack lunches and no hotel rooms on a trip to Chicago. I went on an All-Star tour when the season ended and Dean Meminger was coaching us. Dean told me he was at the meeting when I was chosen as league MVP but there was no trophy, ceremony or anything (not even a certificate!) because of the league problems. Then a few weeks later I got a call from a reporter asking "How does it feel being co-MVP with Ann Meyers?" and I was shocked into silence. The team had moved to Cedar Rapids our second season and my (ex) husband got a job in Des Moines so we moved back there not knowing if there would be a team or where. At the same time I was getting calls from a new league called the Ladies Professional Basketball Association. I was flown to California three times and a got contract offer. <Meanwhile> we were getting conflicting reports from the Cornets. Bill Byrne, the WBL president, called me several times to make threats to try to stop me from leaving the WBL but I was already mad at him for how he handled the MVP award. He was the first person I called when I found out and he told me "It's the best thing to ever happen to you to share it with Annie". I later became friends with Bill and actually stayed at his house with him & his wife when I played for the Columbus Minks in 1984. But I got to the point in late July 1980 where I decided to just go to California. I heard later that there was no official announcement of the Cornets folding until September and they had a dispersal draft of the players. There was just nobody with the Cornets who knew anything for sure so of course we were all in limbo and I had another great option (or at least it seemed so at the time) so I took it and joined the Southern California Breeze of the LPBA. FWiL: The story of the LPBA has been almost completely lost to history. Can you talk about your brief adventure with the Southern California Breeze and the LPBA? Who ran the league and who recruited you to the Breeze? Kazmer: Yes it was definitely an adventure! Tony Mercurio was the General Manager of the Breeze and he was determined to get me in California. So he flew me out, I went to the beach, Disneyland, etc. for the first time in my life and it was a very attractive offer. He personally guaranteed my pay and helped me find a place to live.
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